Tag: African Women Power Network

• African Startup Winning! CEO of Sosai Renewable Energies, Habiba Ali Wins UN SDG WE Empower Challenge

  

  The WE Empower UN SDG Challenge is the first of its kind global business competition for women entrepreneurs who are advancing the UN Sustainable Development Goals and inspiring entire communities to act to create the world we want by 2030.  The WE Empower Challenge honors five women entrepreneurs, one from each of the five UN…

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  August 19, 2018

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• Networking and Dating App, BumBle to Invest in Women Founders

  

  Bumble — a tech company founded with equality in mind, with an 85% female workforce — wants to be part of the solution by launching Bumble Fund to help women largely ignored by the venture capital establishment. Bumble Fund will focus on early-stage investments, primarily in businesses founded and led by women of color and those…

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  August 16, 2018

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• African Startup Winning! Mines Secures $13M Series A to Grow Digital Credit Platform for Emerging Markets

  

  Mines started out as a research project on high performance artificial intelligence led by Kunle Olukotun, a professor of computer engineering at Stanford University. It came to life after a chance meeting with Ekechi Nwokah, a computer scientist working on big data projects at Amazon Web Services, after which they teamed up to direct the…

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  August 13, 2018

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• Vantage GreenX Fund Managers Provides Major Funding for Renewable Energy Projects in South Africa

    Vantage GreenX Fund Managers through its second renewable energy fund, Vantage GreenX Note II, has provided R2.05bn of funding to a combination of six (6) solar and wind energy projects with a combined capacity of 433MW. All the projects form part of Round 4 of the South African Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer (“REIPP”)…

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  August 13, 2018

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• Join the WAAW Foundation SheHacksAfrica (FREE) Coding Bootcamp

  

  Join the WAAW Foundation to advance STEM Education for African girls by attending a four (4) week immersive coding bootcamp. Want to learn how to create your own web and mobile applications? or even learn about cutting-edge data analysis? The WAAW Foundation training workshop will give you the know-how to get started, boost your employability skills and productivity…

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  August 10, 2018

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• Introducing the 9 Female-Led Startups Accepted for the GreenHouse Lab Accelerator Program in Lagos

  

    Venture Garden Group and GreenHouse Capital have launched GreenHouse Lab, a female-focused tech accelerator program and Africa’s first “Powered by Google” accelerator. GreenHouse Lab was founded by GreenHouse Capital – a venture capital firm based in Lagos and is “Powered by Google” – the only accelerator program in Africa with this distinction. After going through…

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  August 8, 2018

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• ENGIE to Build 8 Hybrid Solar Power Plants in Gabon

  

  ENGIE has signed an agreement with CDC, the Gabonese financial institution Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, to deploy eight (8) hybrid solar power plants in Gabon, representing a combined capacity of 2.2 MW. The implemented solution was developed by ENGIE’s subsidiary, Ausar Energy in collaboration with CDC, the Gabonese Ministry of Energy, and the Gabonese energy…

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  August 6, 2018

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• “Innovation in Africa Will Thrive Whether People Support It Or Not,” Founder of cMapIT Nigeria Speaks to the AWP Network

  

  Niyi Abiri is passionate about using open mobile mapping technology to capture citizen-related concerns about government and governance, infrastructure projects, and areas vulnerable to conflict in Nigeria. His company, cMapIT has received global recognition and awards from institutions like MongoDB and Open Data Institute. The AWP Network connects with Abiri to learn more about his…

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  August 6, 2018

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• Facebook and Google Help to Establish the African Master’s in Machine Intelligence

  The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) has announced the launch of a one-year intensive African Master’s in Machine Intelligence (AMMI) in partnership with Facebook and Google. The master’s program will begin this September at the AIMS-Rwanda campus in Kigali. The goal of the initiative is to train a generation of young scientists who will bring a fresh…

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  August 2, 2018

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• The Need for Gender Diversity in Nigeria’s Music Industry, Emma Nyra Speaks to the AWP Network

  

  Emma Nyra speaks to Mary Olushoga, Founder of the AWP Network in this interview, she discusses what inspired her to start her record label and her plans to help increase the number of female artists in Nigeria’s male-dominated music scene. Born Emma Chukwugoziam Obi, ‘Emma Nyra’ left the United States for Nigeria to launch her…

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  June 23, 2018

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